Health and HistoryPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5401/HEALTHHIST.15.1.0011
A. Westmore, G. Moore
{"title":"The 'Mad Major' and his Idiosyncratic War: Linking Military Medicine and Lithium Therapy for Mania","authors":"A. Westmore, G. Moore","doi":"10.5401/HEALTHHIST.15.1.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5401/HEALTHHIST.15.1.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Lithium therapy for manic excitement—as devised in the late 1940s by Australian psychiatrist, John Cade—has struggled to find a home in the modern history of psychiatry and psychopharmacology. This paper argues for a repositioning of lithium therapy to more closely align it with World War II, in that it provided Cade with a ‘master class in the practices and processes of experimental science on which he drew in his postwar research. By examining wartime factors involved in his development as a scientific psychiatrist, we explore the nature of the scientific enterprise and the intellectual shaping of a key participant in it.","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5401/HEALTHHIST.15.1.0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48149372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany. A Social History, 1890-1930 by Michael Hau (review)","authors":"Steven R. Welch","doi":"10.1353/hah.2009.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2009.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48290635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Colonial Medicine of Settler States: Comparing Histories of Indigenous Health","authors":"W. Anderson","doi":"10.2307/40111579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/40111579","url":null,"abstract":"The history of Indigenous health connects inextricably with matters of geography and colonisation. 'Indigenous' usually connotes a place, often figured as marginal or isolated or developmental - as somewhere else.1 More pertinently, Indigenous status implies - or rather, is predicated upon - a history of colonisation and dispossession, with consequent resistance and adaptation to invaders and settlers. The term marks the contrast between original inhabitants and colonisers. The effort to identify some special Indigenous essence or type ultimately is futile since the status emerges out of political subordination under settler colonialism.2 The history of Indigenous health thus demands sensitivity to the impact of both colonialism and the incipient white nation-state. Moreover, it requires a critical awareness of the dark sides of contact, 'civilisation,' and 'development,' as well as an appreciation of the multiple implications of the related processes of assimilation, integration, and self-determination.3 Since first contact with European invaders, Indigenous people on the whole have been sicker and died younger than non-Indigenous inhabitants of the same colony or state.4 These health disparities have lessened significantly in North America and New Zealand, but remain severe across Australia.5 During the late-twentieth century, some historians attempted to explain the initial colonial impact on Indigenous societies in biological terms. Thus infectious diseases swelled the 'ranks of death,' as Indigenous people suffered 'virgin-soil' epidemics, the natural result of 'ecological imperialism.'6 As most of these historians later conceded, such biological analysis tended to discount the unnatural effects of warfare, dispossession, and demoralisation on health and social organisation.7 Biological explanations of contemporary health disparities are largely out of fashion - the","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/40111579","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46909205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chinese Medicine Masquerading as Yi: A Case of Chinese Self-Colonisation by Rhonda Chang (review)","authors":"A. Murray","doi":"10.1353/hah.2016.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2016.0000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47002434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health and HistoryPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5401/HEALTHHIST.19.1.0080
J. McLeod
{"title":"The House That Jack Built: DGMS Rupert Downes and Australian Army Medical Preparations for World War II","authors":"J. McLeod","doi":"10.5401/HEALTHHIST.19.1.0080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5401/HEALTHHIST.19.1.0080","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Strained relationships within military departments, clashes between civilian and army administrations, inter-governmental power struggles, and the historically pervasive British influence, punctuate the history of Australian military medicine. While the achievements of the medical services in World War II are well documented, the ongoing administrative difficulties are less so. Candid reports by Director General of Medical Services, Rupert Downes, suggest that the challenges persisted throughout the war and directly impacted medical personnel, as well as the soldiers in their care. The necessarily hurried recruitment of 6 Division AIF was a handy hook on which to hang responsibility for deficiencies in medical recruitment, training, equipping, and care. Downes, however, was not prepared to ascribe such shortcomings to the ‘stress of time’ alone.","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44409810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Noel O'HareTooth and Veil: The Life and Times of the New Zealand Dental Nurse (review)","authors":"M. Morgan","doi":"10.1353/hah.2021.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2021.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43822206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fear, Trust and Aborigines: The Historical Experience of State Institutions and Current Encounters in the Health System","authors":"Leonie Cox","doi":"10.2307/40111576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/40111576","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Troubled dynamics between residents of an Aboriginal town in Queensland and the local health system were established during colonisation and consolidated during those periods of Australian history where the policies of 'protection' (segregation), integration and then assimilation held sway. The status of Aboriginal health is, in part, related to interactions between the residents' current and historical experiences of the health and criminal justice systems as together these agencies used medical and moral policing to legitimate dispossession, marginalisation, institutionalisation and control of the residents. The punitive regulations and ethnocentric strategies used by these institutions are within the living memory of many of the residents or in the published accounts of preceding generations. This paper explores current residents' memories and experiences.","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/40111576","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47211587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Goitre Monitor: The History of Iodine Deficiency in Tasmania by Paul A. C. Richards, John C. Stewart (review)","authors":"R. Scragg","doi":"10.1353/hah.2009.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2009.0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47457911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aradale: The Making of a Haunted Asylum by David Waldron Sharn Waldron Nathaniel Buchanan (review)","authors":"Georgina Rychner","doi":"10.1353/hah.2021.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hah.2021.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42286560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Health and HistoryPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.5401/HEALTHHIST.15.1.0118
W. Anderson
{"title":"'Becoming a Man of Experience': Interview with C. Ruthven B. Blackburn","authors":"W. Anderson","doi":"10.5401/HEALTHHIST.15.1.0118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5401/HEALTHHIST.15.1.0118","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29747,"journal":{"name":"Health and History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.5401/HEALTHHIST.15.1.0118","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41812579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}